It grew with some former Grand Rapids residents, and some who winter in the Orlando area, checking out the Ginn Open on Friday.

Dan Doyle, who sported an "East Golf" T-shirt, used to work in the golf business in Grand Rapids. He remembered losing a match to Fouch before, and brought a friend and his father along from the New Port Richey area to cheer her on.

"I missed seeing her when the Futures Tour was down here last year, so I put it on my calendar this time," he said. "Her swing looks great, better than ever. It's fun to see her out on the LPGA Tour."

Fouch's putter, which helped her save some pars and make birdies in the first round, didn't help so much in a second-round 72.

She made a birdie to start the day by reaching a green-side bunker on the 528-yard par-5 10th hole in two shots, and then splashing a shot to 5 feet. She also ended the day with a birdie on the par-5 ninth hole.

Her two bogeys on her first nine involved a three-putt on a slope at No. 13, and a missed green and missed 8-foot par putt on the par-3 16th.

Fouch is known as a "grinder," which in golf terms means she finds a way to get the ball into the hole and works at the game with great determination to get the most out of a round.

She had to grind some in the second round.

"In some ways I'm prouder of her today than yesterday," said her coach, Buddy Whitten, the former Grand Rapids teaching pro now working in Pensacola, Fla.

"She found a way to shoot a 72 when she wasn't making putts."

Fouch worked on her putting with Whitten immediately after the round, and found mainly that she wasn't hitting the ball hard enough on the bermuda grass greens.

"They looked like they would react like yesterday, and they just didn't," she said.

She planned to eat a big bowl of pasta, and get rest. Her previous four-round events have left her weary on Sunday's final round.

"I'm getting used to what I have to do in these long weeks," she said. "I'll be fine for this weekend."

Fouch was tied for 13th at 4-under-par 140. Yani Tseng ,of Taiwan, a strong rookie, fired a course-record 64 to check in at 12 under par.

Tseng has a two-shot lead on Suzann Pettersen of Norway, and is three ahead of superstar Lorena Ochoa, who shot 67.

The LPGA Tour is on CBS between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday so tee times are early for the third round. Fouch will tee it up at 8:25 a.m. with Brittany Lang of Texas and Linsey Wright of Australia.

"My goal is the same -- to be in contention on Sunday playing with the best players in the world," Fouch said. "I didn't let that get away, and I'm confident the birdies will come."

Fouch isn't the only person with West Michigan ties who made the cut. Tracy Hanson, an LPGA veteran who has spent time in the Holland area in recent years during her offseason, also made the cut. She shot 71 in the second round and was a 1-under-par 143.